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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUsing Trump's own "logic":
If you kill one person, in many states you get the death penalty.
If you smuggle drugs, you may kill 5,000 people, so you, too, should get the death penalty.
SO-O-O-----, if you are an NRA pimp AND you deny poor people health care, you've likely caused the death of tens of thousands of people. What should the penalty be?
Just sayin'---------
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Using Trump's own "logic": (Original Post)
Atticus
Mar 2018
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dchill
(38,474 posts)1. Using Trump Logic is dangerous and can lead to...
mental health issues. It's also just plain wrong-headed.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)2. Not recognizing sarcasm and a rhetorical question is also sometimes a problem. nt
Girard442
(6,070 posts)3. People think they know who is a "drug dealer" but they don't.
If a pharmaceutical company ships far more opioid products to a region than can be legitimately prescribed, do we hang the CEO from a lamppost? What about the friendly neighborhood pharamacist who advances someone with chronic pain a couple of Percocets on their next scrip? Lethal injection for him?